Robert Jones (diplomat)

[6] While Francis II of France was hunting at houses and estates belonging to the Duke of Guise in September 1559, Throckmorton, Somers, and Henry Killigrew toured Lorraine, visiting Metz and Nancy.

[7] Despite the tone of his correspondence, the historian Nicola Sutherland notes that Throckmorton's assistants in France, as Protestants and lacking ambassadorial status, were "disliked, distrusted, and isolated".

[8] Throckmorton sent Somers and Jones to talk to Jane Dormer and the Count of Feria as they were travelling to the Château d'Amboise in France in April 1560.

[12] After Jones had an audience with Elizabeth in November 1560, William Cecil complained to Throckmorton that his report contained "matter of such weight" that it was "unmeet" or unsuitable for a "woman's knowledge".

When they were betrothed in January 1561, Jones wrote to Throckmorton that she was a skilled player on the virginals, and commented "blessed is the wooing that is not long a doing".